All of the big magazines analyze their test data, and they all use different ways to do it. You could give Car and Driver and Automobile Magazine the same test data and they'd publish different 0-60 numbers because of how they deal with things like rollout. I remember the difference being around 0.3s.
codrus (Forum Supporter) said:NOHOME said:How about: All and any of these specs are pointless in a transportation world where people drive in day-to-day driving conditions and obey the legal rules of the road?
Above and beyond the above, all of these proposed specs are just a pissing match and are of no relevance to the transportation function served by 99.9% of vehicles sol
You (and several other people) are missing the point. You don't read quarter mile numbers so that you know what it will do when you go drag racing, you do it so that you get a sense of how much grunt the car has when you need to pass someone on a 2-lane road. It's a benchmark.
One of the British mags - EVO in the early days? Car? - used to publish Time Exposed to Danger. It was based on how long it would take to overtake a vehicle of a certain length. Pretty useful real-world metric, especially in the world of British two lanes.
